Journalist

How Israel Gagged on its own Gag Order

by SR Editor April 9, 2010

Why conceal the fact that the Shin Bet has a “hit list” and gives license to its commando units to carry out field executions? Anat Kam is finding out the price of speaking truth to power. By Gila Svirsky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This story is a testament to the Internet. And to Anat [...]

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Der Spiegel’s tale of Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the Hariri assassination irresponsible

by Franklin Lamb May 26, 2009

By Franklin Lamb, Beirut Time for transparency at Der Spiegel? “We don’t know where the Der Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don’t know where they brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor’s office has spoken to the German magazine about anything. We have a clear policy of not leaking [...]

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PETITION! Lift Travel Restrictions on Palestinian Journalist

by Haitham Sabbah May 28, 2008

SIGN THE PETITION To: Israeli and Palestinian Authorities -Palestinian journalist Khalid Amayreh, who lives in the West Bank, has been invited to attend a media conference in Germany. As required, he set about to request all of the necessary travel documents, including a visa that needs to be granted from the German representative office in [...]

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How to Become an Israeli Journalist

by Yonatan Mendel April 7, 2008

A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories correspondent at Ma’ariv, an Israeli newspaper. I speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools and taken part in many joint Jewish-Palestinian projects. At my interview the boss asked how I could possibly be objective. I had spent too much time with Palestinians; I [...]

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Needed in Gaza: Israeli journalists

by Haitham Sabbah October 15, 2007

Gaza had become a closed territory, without any media coverage or documentation. Such is Israeli freedom of the press. Anyone who expected such an intolerable reality to stir a protest was proven wrong. In any case, the readers do not want to read about it, the government and army do not want them to know [...]

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National Union of Journalists in UK votes to boycott Israeli goods and calls for sanctions

by Haitham Sabbah April 16, 2007

The National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year’s war in Lebanon. Today’s vote was carried 66 to 54 – a result that met with gasps and a small amount of applause from the union delegates present… The motion [...]

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Sharon, Why Did You Destroy My House?

by Haitham Sabbah December 6, 2006

Palestinian journalist, Mohammed Omer, age 22, winner of the best Ethnic Media Award, organized by New America Media in Washington DC. His story sheds the light on the daily suffer and human details of Palestinian family who was turned to homeless as Israeli Occupation Forces destroyed their home in the refugee camp of Rafah, south [...]

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Journalist under fire!

by Haitham Sabbah July 20, 2006

About the targeting of Ramattan News Agency staff in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. But that’s not all, two reporters shot by Israeli forces, making seven reporters attacked in 10 days.

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Egypt Journalists Under Fire

by Haitham Sabbah May 26, 2006

Three journalists charged with defamation; three others assaulted, another abducted by mob; several journalists assaulted by authorities; five journalists’ detentions extended. [Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)]

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Asking the Blogosphere: Is the media telling the real story on Iraq?

by Haitham Sabbah April 4, 2006

Let’s have good news from Iraq, please. No! Not possible? Why? Rebecca MacKinnon – Global Voices: How does the nature, quality, and content of media coverage of the Iraq war ultimately impact the lives of people in Iraq, the Middle East and around the planet? In your country, how does the media’s Iraq coverage rate? [...]

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U.S. Ranks Sixth Among Countries Jailing Journalists

by Haitham Sabbah December 15, 2005

The United States has tied with Myanmar (the former Burma) for sixth place among countries that are holding the most journalists behind bars, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Each country is jailing five journalists. The United States is holding four Iraqi journalists in detention centers in Iraq and one [...]

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Al Jazeera reporter arrested in West Bank

by Haitham Sabbah December 3, 2005

SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrest of Palestinian journalist Awad Rajoub on 30 November 2005 at his home in Doura, 10 km from the West Bank city of Hebron. The organisation called on the Israeli military to explain why he is still being held. Rajoub reports for the [...]

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Will lawmakers raise shields to protect bloggers?

by Haitham Sabbah October 15, 2005

Will lawmakers raise shields to protect bloggers? A heads up for bloggers and other independent journalists on the status of shield laws and constitutional protections — or lack thereof.

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Shidyak Targeted In Car Bomb

by Haitham Sabbah September 25, 2005

Sorry, no good news this week! Lebanese Journalist, May Shidyak, a television journalist critical of Syria was seriously wounded when a bomb exploded inside her car north of Beirut, security sources and her LBC television station said on Sunday. Shidyak (aka. Chidiac), a Christian news anchor well known in Lebanon, was taken to hospital and [...]

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